Many residents of the western regions of Germany observed a light phenomenon in the sky. It later turned out that it was a meteorite. Its fragments damaged the roofs of several residential houses.
Fragments of a meteorite damaged several residential houses in western Germany. The police reported on Sunday, March 8, that information about the damages came, in particular, from the city of Koblenz, as well as the mountain ranges of Hunsrück and Eifel in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
In the police operations center, it was indicated that around 7:00 PM, a "burnt celestial body" fell on the roof of a residential building in the Koblenz district of Güls. As a result of the incident, no one was injured; firefighters and police arrived at the scene, but there is no longer any danger, the dpa agency quotes the police statement. According to the AFP agency, there are reports that some people were injured.
On the evening of March 8, many residents of western Germany observed an unexplained light phenomenon in the sky. Eyewitnesses who saw it in Lower Saxony, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Baden-Württemberg, and North Rhine-Westphalia posted videos and photos on social media.
Police see no security threat
According to the police in Kaiserslautern (Rhineland-Palatinate), citizens reported seeing a "bright glowing flying object with a short fiery glow" or a flash in the sky. Among other theories, there were suggestions about a rocket flying by. However, law enforcement emphasized that there are no signs of a security threat.
Meteorites are fragments of asteroids that break into many small pieces when entering the Earth's atmosphere. Some of them burn up, while others fall to Earth. In January 2024, it was reported that a meteorite about a meter in diameter crashed in a suburb of Berlin. A year earlier, approximately a dozen and a half meteorites fell in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The largest of them, weighing 3.7 kilograms, was found in a garden near a private residence; collectors were willing to buy it for a large sum - the best offer was 200,000 euros.
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